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3. What organs in a plant arc used to store up food? Givo 
examples. 
4. Explain tlic difference between tlio ovule and the scccl, and 
state what produces the difference. 
5. Describe the circulation of the sap in plants, and specify the 
structures through which the circulation takes place. 
6. What is phyllotaxy ? 
7. Give the principal groups into which Cryptogamous plants are 
arranged, state the principal characters of the groups, and give an 
example of each. 
8. Give an account of the potato disease ; and state how you would 
treat a crop attacked by it. 
9. What are the principal sources of the food of a plant, and how 
does it benefit from artificial manures ? 
10. What are the fundamental differences between the artificial 
system of the classification of Linnteus, and the natural system of 
Jussieu ? 
11. Give the technical names and Natural Orders of the carrot, 
beet, oats, cow-grass, rib-grass, and Timothy grass. 
12. Describe in a systematic method the plants marked A. B, and C. 
EXAMINATION IN ANATOMY AND ANIMAL 
PHYSIOLOGY. 
Maximum Number of Makes, 100. Pass Number, 50. 
Saturday, May l^th, from 2 p.m. till 5 p.m. 
1. Describe the general structure, position, and size of the heart in 
the Horse or Ox. Name its different cavities and the vessels connected 
therewith. State fully its action in carrying on the circulation of 
the blood, and the average number of its contractions in health. 
2. Supposing the blood to vary in colour in the cavities of the 
heart, explain the chief causes of its varying hue, and the advantages 
and disadvantages connected therewith. 
3. State how the normal temperature of the body is maintained, 
the means which are employed to ascertain its variations, and under 
what circumstances it is increased or diminished. 
4. Describe briefly the processes of digestion and assimilation of 
the food, and say in what form its nutritive portions enter the 
system. State also the course which is taken by the vessels which 
convey the nutritive materials. 
5. Name the position which is occupied by the liver. Describe its 
use, and say in what essential particular it differs from other glands 
of the body in effecting its secretion. 
